Texas: In lawsuit, activists say Texas winner-take-all approach to the Electoral College is discrim
Texas: In lawsuit, activists say Texas winner-take-all approach to the Electoral College is discriminatory https://thevotingnews.com/winner-take-all-electoral-practice-faces-voter-rights-challenge-bloomberg/
Saying Texas current practice is discriminatory, a group of Hispanic activists and lawyers has sued the state in hopes of blocking it from awarding all of its Electoral College votes to one candidate during presidential elections. The lawsuit filed in federal court Wednesday calls on Texas to treat voters in an equal manner by abolishing that winner-take-all approach, which all but two states use. The suit, filed by the League of United Latin American Citizens and a coalition of Texas lawyers, says that approach violates the U.S. Constitution and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Its just one of many pending voting rights lawsuits arguing that Texas, which regularly votes Republican, has illegally discriminated against voters of color.
Similar Electoral College lawsuits were also filed Wednesday in Republican-dominated South Carolina and Democratic-leaning Massachusetts and California. The South Carolina suit also alleges a Voting Rights Act violation.
At the suits core is the doctrine of one person, one vote, rooted in the 14th Amendment. The plaintiffs argue that the winner-take-all system is unconstitutional because Texans who favor losing candidates effectively had their votes cancelled, while voters who favor winning candidates see their influence unconstitutionally [magnified]. The suit also alleges that winner-take-all violates the First Amendment.